Assumption Quotes
680 quotes by 574 authors
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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
— Paul Broca
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
— Albert Einstein
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My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will produce more results…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Test everything, including assumptions
— Jeffrey Zeldman
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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.…
— Bob Hawke
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
— George Orwell
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The…
— William Stafford
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it…
— Garry Kasparov
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of…
— David M. Kreps
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Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary…
— Wassily Leontief
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to…
— John Maynard Keynes
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network…
— Mary Parker Follett
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The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation…
— Peter Lilley
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but,…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have…
— Wendell Berry
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